Reply from a demo I sent

mtjm

Had send a demo to RTE Radio got this back

(Thank you for your email and your demo.

I’m sure you’ve read recently about RTÉ’s ongoing financialissues and the cutbacks we’re all facing (just as elsewhere). Indeed weare just finalising the latest round of redundancies and reducing staff andpresenters with a view to making another €25m in savings across RTÉ next year.

Unfortunately, this will mean fewer shows with longer slots andless opportunities both for those currently on our books and for the talent wemay have been interested in for some time to come. Realistically I see no prospectof us having any openings for the foreseeable future.

I know that this is a very stark message but this is thereality in which we find ourselves right now.

With best wishes,)

Russell_James

On the plus side, at least it is honest.

On the down side, it raises questions. Does that mean that no matter what, there will not be any changes on RTE radio in the next three, maybe five, maybe seven years? I guess it shows just how much of a closed shop it is.

Atlantic Dawn

Real fools economics, keep current loss making setup with overpaid presenters or take on some new cheap blood and take risks with new shows. No wonder their listenership is declining, ssme old same old.

The Muppet

The typing is really gone to pot out in Montrose.

STB

I would really curious to know who signed the letter.

Sounded like a very cheesed off bod.

squonk

Not a bit of corporate speak or political correctness. You have to admire their honesty.

I read it as "Yeah mate, I know! Listen the place is fúcked. I've got some buds who could fill up some slots with real quality and even I can't get them in. The shower that are here won't budge and won't get the door either. That's not going to change for the foreseeable. Try TodayFM instead.".

europa11

"I’m sure you’ve read recently about RTÉ’s ongoing financialissues and the cutbacks"....

I've read about them.

In the last few months I've also witnessed a small army of RTE presenters and virtual nobodies feck off on a junket of a lifetime to Baku to follow the Grimes twins. Mooney alone must have run up a bill running into six figures if you factor in the amount of programme time he devoted to his Jedward fetish in the run up months. He's not back a wet week and off again, this time to Iceland, Spain and Germany with him - birdwatching the excuse. To see how serious RTE are about cutbacks, Marty Whelan - an alleged presenter from a classical Music station :eek: is also sent on the Eurofolly to Azerbaijan.

Then the Late Late Show's 50th Anniversary - better known to every child in this country over 5 years old as the greatest piss-up in the history of braodcasting - love to see the bar tab for that one.....whenever it finishes.

Sports - I can get over Euro2012 coverage as it does draw an audience (and therefore advertising revenues) which should pay for itself, but there is one guy who seems to have landed the golden ticket - Greg Allen - that guy must have more airmiles clocked up than Obama. ffs everytime I tune into a radio sportscast he's out in Phoenix, Atlanta, Dubai, Vegas...you name it - the sun is shining, white balls are pinging and Mr. Allen is out there...commenting on Golf on the Radio. I know RE were famed for Irish Dancing on the wireless but this is just as amazing. And claiming he's following Irish golfers rings a bit hollow with some, considering the Nordie golfers all declare to be gofing for Norniron or, should they make the Olympics, for Great Britain. Either way totally unjustifiable waste of resources sending this guy around the world even if it's to cover Paddy Harrington playing a minority sport which we cannot even watch on free-to-air TV, a medium more suited than radio for the sport in question either way.

I won't bother going beyond mentioning Joe, the Maid, Tubs and many others in that organisation who are still being paid more money than many world leaders are. It's been said over and over on many threads here to little avail.

Yet the excuse that RTE use now to fob off potential new talent will never be used (it seems) to get rid of the dead weight dragging the place down.

----rant over! for now:mad:

The Muppet

europa11 wrote: »

Then the Late Late Show's 50th Anniversary - better known to every child in this country over 5 years old as the greatest piss-up in the history of braodcasting - love to see the bar tab for that one.....whenever it finishes.

Sports - I can get over Euro2012 coverage as it does draw an audience (and therefore advertising revenues) which should pay for itself,:mad:

Did the Late Late 50th Anniversary not draw an audience or was it Ad Free? Is it possible it paid for itself I wonder?